I'm doing some work in net-physical, and I noticed that it contains:

                if [ "$1" = "xx0" ]; then
                        #
                        # For some unknown historical reason the xx0
                        # ifname is ignored.
                        #
                        shift
                        continue
                fi

This results in the net-physical script to ignore any file named 
/etc/hostname.xx0.  According to google, this was a SunOS 4.x.x hack to allow 
someone to set the hostname of a standalone system.  Such files are clearly no 
longer used this way by Solaris.  I propose that we remove this particular 
interface name restriction, perhaps as part of UV.  Any opinions on this?

-Seb

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